Species Pogonella bispinus (Stål, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthuchus bispinus Stål, C. 1869. Bidrag till Membracidernas kannedom. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 26: 231-300 [288].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, Australia.
• Acanthuchus euryone Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [90].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: 11.1905; may be holotype by monotypy), Sydney, New South Wales.
• Acanthuchus eurynomus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [91].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904; may be holotype by monotypy), Bundaberg, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [286] (synonymy of A. euryone Kirkaldy, A. eurynomus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Pogonella bispinus (Stål, 1869). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [286]

 

Introduction

This small brown species is widespread and common in eastern Australia. Distribution records for the species given by Smithers (1985) included the first record from Western Australia, from Barrow Island. Day (1999) also recorded the species from South Australia and Tasmania without providing details of precise localities within those states.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Acacia pycnantha Benth. [FABACEAE] Golden Wattle).

 

Diagnosis

Ferrugineus vel nigro-ferrugineus, punctatus; lateribus pectoris et scutelli dense griseo-sericeis; thorace cornubus lateralibus breviusculis, extrorsum productis, pone cornua illa in dorso inermi, processu postico posterius leviter curvato; tegminibus subvinaceo-hyalinis, basi et ad costam ferrugineis et punctatis. ♂ ♀. Long. 5, Lat. 2 mm (Stål 1869).

Coloration, brown or blackish brown. Lateral pronotal extensions horizontal, transverse in ♂, slightly recurved and longer and narrower in ♀. Median pronotal process consisting of a widely rounded and only slightly elevated carina, somewhat higher in the ♀ than in the ♂. Tegmen purplish brown, sometimes in part vitreous. Length ♂, ♀, 4–5 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [286]

Stål, C. 1869. Bidrag till Membracidernas kannedom. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 26: 231-300 [288]

 

General References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [696]

Smithers, C.N. 1985. New records of Pogonella bispinus (Stål), (Homoptera: Membracidae) from eastern Australia and Barrow Island, Western Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 12(2): 35–36 [35–36]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACIDAE Germar, 1821	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
16-May-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED